Global Homeschooling

In Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf argues that women should consider themselves citizens of the world rather than of any one country.

I can't go quite that far, but it's true that I feel a certain dual-citizenship: I'm a citizen of both my own country and of the homeschooling community.

So it's alarming to me that in this past week or so, I've learned about major homeschooling-law developments in three countries more or less by chance. I happen to belong to several regional homeschooling Yahoo groups, thanks to the research I was doing for the international issue; and I've been able to keep up a bit on homeschooling news in countries not my own.

One of the North American loops I'm on mentioned the current UK difficulties; but there hasn't been a word about the recent bad news in Sweden or France, for the simple reason that American homeschoolers tend to not know what's going on in those countries unless we happen to have friends or family in them.

I was (quite understandably) refused membership in a few regional Yahoo groups, for the simple reason that they are intended for homeschoolers in those regions. But how are we to keep informed as to how and what the global homeschooling community is doing?

In an effort to help us all connect a bit, and give us a place to do so, I've started a Yahoo group dedicated to just that: Global Homeschooling.
 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalhomeschooling/
 
I hope you'll stop by. And please spread the word, if you can.